As said in the video, the best way for information to be encoded in someones brain is to achieve an "ahha" moments. So for instance if I was teaching my third grade class letters, there are many way that I can ago about doing this, but I would want to pick different ways so that my students will remember them well. The first way is i would us a song that everybody learns when they learn the ABC's. The melody would be to twinkle twinkle little star. Since little kids know the song twinkle twinkle little star, singing the ABC's to the melody will help them learn the order, and may remeber it better then just blatenly reciting the letters. The second way I would teach my students the ABC's is having an object go along with an object. I would show them the ojbect then show them the letter. Later on I would have them go around the room and search for objects that started with their corresponding letters. These two scenarios are examples of how I could teach the ABC's to my students, with devices where they will remeber them. These two examples use different parts of the brain which will help students remeber different aspects of learning the ABC's.
I really like your ideas! Using a song is a great way to get students to remember things, and having a visual representation of each letter is great idea as well. Another idea could be more kinesthetic- maybe having them somehow write or trace the letters in a fun way, like with paint or glitter or something. That would help with the visual - seeing a "pretty" representation of the letters - but also, it would be a fun activity that could help their writing skills as well!
ReplyDeleteI always remembered songs that we learned in school, way more than anything just blandly explained. It was so much more exciting and really sticks in peoples memories. We had a song for spelling the word "encyclopedia" and because of that, I don't have to use spell check on that one word! Motions or little dance moves to songs also really help, so that would be an additional add-on to this learning method!
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